Computerization of medical health records will indeed promote the greater use of e-business in the medical/health arena. It will also provide physicians around the world with greater access to patient information and case studies. Tied to these benefits however, is the risk that the publ...

According to Wisconsin's Model of Academic Standards, "Information and Technology Literacy is the ability of an individual, working independently or with others, to use tools, resources, processes, and systems responsibly to access and evaluate information in any medium, and to use that in...

The use of technology in healthcare is often difficult. The information systems deployed by any organization must meet the health needs of the patients or consumers, the business needs of the organization in the financial terms of the industry, as well as be effective in a purely technolo...

The doctor-patient relationship has been defined differently through the years. In the beginning it developed into a "common calling" which meant doctors practiced medicine as a duty to their patients. Laws were developed to protect patients, therefore doctors used proper care and expert skill...

The two articles about TomoTherapy are different in many ways. One focuses more on the struggle of making the new technology available, while the other focuses on the benefits of the technology. Although the number of cancer patients are on the rise, TomoTherapy will have a significant ...

Telemedicine is the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide health care when distance separates the medical professional from the patient. It includes using equipment such as telephones, fax machines or computers and interactive multimedia. Telemedicine transports med...

Predictions of healthcare in 2030 are amazing, to say the least. We could free up scarce physician resources if we empower physician extenders (registered nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and physician assistants) to provide more of the basic care, increase automation vi...

As the history of medicine has evolved, a number of trends and prevailing opinions have swept the profession. One of the most subtle, and yet most revealing results of these sweeping trends manifests itself by altering the tone in medical conversations and dialogues, often available to the non-med...

Pharmacogenomics in the Future of Health Care Practice Abstract: Pharmacogenomics is an up and coming technology that encompasses the areas of health care, science, drug therapy and genetics. Pharmacogenomics research examines gene expression, and how drugs can be best suited to work with an indiv...

Introduction: Some time ago, I read an authoritative WHO publication with a guide to the "Five-Star Doctor" '...improves quality of care by responding to the patient's total health needs with integrated preventive, curative and rehabilitative services while considering the pa...

Over the past few years in medical professions, much controversy has been brought up over euthanasia. Euthanasia is a form of mercy killing that incorporates the ending of a person's life to relieve them from physical suffering or incurable diseases. It takes deliberate steps into causing death, a...

The breakthrough of medicine, nutrition and technology has brought forth much prosperity to the welfare of life. The life expectancy rate has risen. Nutrition is known to be at its best and technology has taken mankind to the moon. However, prosperity is not the only thing that these three has b...

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, patients in hospitals around the world depended on the care of nurses. These trained professionals assist doctors and specialists in virtually every area of medicine. In addition, nursing allows for a special type of one-on-one contact that doctors can't ...

In the last five years, the pressures of managed care have driven health care providers to find more efficient, cheaper, and better ways to provide health care to their customers. Patients are no longer willing to wait in hospital ER's for hours while waiting to be seen. Insurance companies ar...

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, patients in hospitals around the world depended on the care of nurses. These trained professionals assist doctors and specialists in virtually every area of medicine. In addition, nursing allows for a special type of one-on-one contact that doctors can't...

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, patients in hospitals around the world depended on the care of nurses. These trained professionals assist doctors and specialists in virtually every area of medicine. In addition, nursing allows for a special type of one-on-one contact that doctors can't...

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, patients in hospitals around the world depended on the care of nurses. These trained professionals assist doctors and specialists in virtually every area of medicine. In addition, nursing allows for a special type of one-on-one contact that doctors can't...

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, patients in hospitals around the world depended on the care of nurses. These trained professionals assist doctors and specialists in virtually every area of medicine. In addition, nursing allows for a special type of one-on-one contact that doctors can&apo...

Euthanasia (also known as mercy killing) is the act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons suffering from painful or incurable disease or incapacitating physical disorder. The question about weather this is morally right or wrong has posed a major ethical dilemma on the world today. Th...

Introduction Acupuncture is currently being used for a number of medical treatments. It is important to look at the history of acupuncture, how it relates to post stroke patients and what its significance is to the nursing field. History Acupuncture was developed by the ancient Chinese who "felt a...

Technology is a crucial ingredient of health care. All health care consists of human interaction, the application of technology, or mostly both. John Harvey's Video; Round and round the wagon train looks at the financial, technological problems of NHS in the district of Shropshire during 1989. ...

Literally, euthanasia means "good death" but the controversy surrounding it is just the opposite. In active euthanasia the immediate cause of death is not the patients disease but something that is done to the patient to cause his or her death. Because, active euthanasia destroys another...

Euthanasia should be permissible only in certain cases. It is a controversial issue that society is facing. It is the practice of painlessly ending the lives of people who have incurable diseases. Some severely handicapped patients have ended their lives this way. The issue is whether...

Broadly understood, ethics consist of principles, which direct the conduct of individuals, groups or professions (Wilkins 2007). Nurses as professionals make independent decisions on the care of patients. But they are still answerable to their profession as a whole as regards these independent...

In today's globally dynamic and diverse environments, a growing number of firms are competing physically as well as electronically. A firm, like a hospital, where I work, is creating an e-marketing strategy under an overall marketing program. It is now a commonly known that e-commerce pr...